[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15407]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Madam President, this morning the Senate will immediately 
resume consideration of S. 812, the generic drug bill. Under an order 
entered yesterday evening, there will be up to 90 minutes of debate on 
the motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to the Graham and Smith 
of Oregon prescription drug amendment. A vote on that motion to waive 
is expected to occur around 11 o'clock this morning.
  If the motion to waive is not successful, the Senate will immediately 
act on the Dorgan amendment, as amended, and then go directly to a 
cloture vote on the underlying bill. Should cloture be invoked on S. 
812, then a vote on final passage will occur immediately. Following 
disposition of the generic drug bill, the Senate will vote on 
confirming the nomination of D. Brooks Smith to be U.S. Circuit Judge. 
Debate on that was completed last night.
  The succeeding votes in this series will be 10 minutes, and there 
will be up to 2 minutes of discussion time available between each vote, 
except that prior to the Smith vote there will be 2\1/2\ minutes on 
each side.
  The Senate is expected to begin consideration of the Defense 
appropriations bill following the vote on Judge Smith. It is 
anticipated we will finish the Defense bill tonight.
  Therefore, Senators should be prepared to remain on the floor 
following the first vote today so that the succeeding votes can be 
expedited. Senators should expect rollcall votes occurring around 11 
a.m. and into the evening.
  It should be a very busy day. Even if we complete this schedule, 
which I am confident we will do, we still have a lot of work to do 
before we take our August break.

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